Agendas for sustainability : environment and development into the twenty-first century / Mary MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Mary, 1961-

Macdonald M Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

Routledge/SEI global environment and development series.

Routledge/SEI global environment and development series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities and actions across eleven of the major agendas put forward for environment and development after Rio. Points of divergence and areas of common ground are investigated for over 30 environme

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and acronyms; A big build-up; The agenda-setting process; Economic considerations; Social development; The well-being of ecosystems; Agenda 21 and other sustainable development agendas; Progress on the implementation of the agendas; Agenda-setting for sustainability; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-114) and index.

ISBN:

1-85187-249-3

1-134-73272-4

1-134-73273-2

1-280-33320-0

0-203-27654-X

0-203-02105-3

9780203021057

OCLC:

49707781